ABSTRACT

Both the Peace Process and the Israeli unilateral arrangements that followed have strengthened the Israeli control over the urban development of the West Bank. This has resulted in a space characterized by a multilevel fragmentation of territory that is presented in the characteristics of the urban space. Using the variables of the lived space introduced in Chapter 1, the impact of Israeli policies on the Palestinians as a people is analyzed. What was suggested in the Peace Process in terms of urban space and what is existing now shows how the current ‘peace’ politics have been a continuation of the colonization of Palestinian urban space, people and time.